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  2. Nutrition facts label - Wikipedia

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    Nutrition facts label. The nutrition facts label (also known as the nutrition information panel, and other slight variations) is a label required on most packaged food in many countries, showing what nutrients and other ingredients (to limit and get enough of) are in the food. Labels are usually based on official nutritional rating systems.

  3. Aspartame - Wikipedia

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    Aspartame is a methyl ester of the dipeptide of the natural amino acids L - aspartic acid and L - phenylalanine. [4] Under strongly acidic or alkaline conditions, aspartame may generate methanol by hydrolysis. Under more severe conditions, the peptide bonds are also hydrolyzed, resulting in free amino acids.

  4. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    Volume measures of compressible ingredients have a substantial measurement uncertainty, in the case of flour of about 20%. [32] Some volume-based recipes, therefore, attempt to improve the reproducibility by including additional instructions for measuring the correct amount of an ingredient.

  5. Coca-Cola formula - Wikipedia

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    Coca-Cola inventor John Pemberton is known to have shared his original formula with at least four people before his death in 1888. [1] In 1891, Asa Candler purchased the rights to the formula from Pemberton's estate, founded the Coca-Cola Company, and instituted the shroud of secrecy that has since enveloped the formula. He also made changes to the ingredients list, which by most accounts ...

  6. Lists of foods - Wikipedia

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    This is a categorically-organized list of foods. Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. [1] It is produced either by plants, animals, or fungi, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy ...

  7. Composition of the human body - Wikipedia

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    The main elements that comprise the human body (including water) can be summarized as CHNOPS . About 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Only about 0.85% is composed of another five elements: potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium.

  8. Food composition data - Wikipedia

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    Food composition data. Food composition data ( FCD) are detailed sets of information on the nutritionally important components of foods and provide values for energy and nutrients including protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals and for other important food components such as fibre. The data are presented in food composition ...

  9. Listerine - Wikipedia

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    According to the product overview, the ingredients are as following for Listerine Total Care. [23] Similar distribution is contained in other varieties, which also list the essential oils as active ingredients.